HB 5023 tightens child-care license disqualifications, adding prostitution- and sex-offense felonies to permanent/ time-bar rules, affecting applicants, staff, and households.

Rhode Island adds menopause to protected conditions, requiring reasonable accommodations for pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, and related needs, and barring discrimination.

Creates the Resilient Rhody Infrastructure Fund within RIIB to finance resiliency and stormwater projects for Rhode Island towns, via loans/grants, rules, and local-hire incentives.

HB 5698 raises penalties for promoting or organizing street takeovers to deter organizers and protect public safety.